4th Grade

Introduction

A famous director is coming to Christ the King School. He wants to see how well you can research and conduct an interview. He is looking for the next great “Not Too Late Night Talk Show” host. You will need to conduct one interview in character as your famous inventor. Don’t miss this great opportunity!

As a Researcher and interviewer you will have two main tasks to complete:

1) First, you will individually use your famous inventor research to create 10 questions that someone can ask you to find out INTERESTING facts about your inventor.

2) With these questions, you will become this character and present your findings to the class in the form of an interview with a partner.

Process

1. You will write at least 10 interview questions about your famous person. During your interview, you must include your inventor’s major accomplishments.

2. When researching your famous person look for many different and unique facts to make your interview interesting for your audience.

3. You will need to write up your questions. These interview questions will be read to you by a partner. You must then be prepared to give answers with accurate information back to your interviewing partner.

Today you're going to draw a scene from your spring break...using Geometer's Sketchpad. You can draw anything you like; a place you went, an activity you did, even something you imagined. In your drawing, you MUST use at least:

In this project, we're going to start learning the art of photo collage using PhotoShop. Photo editing tools can be incredibly powerful, enabling you to make beautiful, hilarious, or just plain weird images like the ones below:

Here is a series of videos to help you get started with this amazing artform:

Today we're going to look at how all the parts of a computer work together. All computers have the same kind of parts, even though they might look very different!

Storage

This where computers store all the information they need to work. To play a song, for example, they need the MP3 file of the song, but they also need the Application that plays songs, and drivers to run the speakers. And of course, an Operating System to run all that stuff!

Processing

Permanent storage is usually pretty slow, for a computer. That's why computers copy anything they're working on from Storage to Memory. It uses the motherboard to do this, which ties all the parts of the computer together. The CPU is the brain of the computer, and it does all the processing to move information around.

Power and Heat

Computers run on electricity, so they need power! Desktop computers use power supplies to convert wall power into the delicate electricity needed by electronics. Electronics also create heat, so they use heat sinks and fans to keep computer components cool.